We updated What’s Up in Newton – Week of 4/21/2024 and School Committee Meetings – Week of 4/21/2024 to include a School Committee public hearing and regular meeting posted after press time for the Fig City Local Government Meetings & Reports newsletter.
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We updated School Committee budget meetings reflect stability, as indicated in the post, to reflect additional context provided by Newton Public Schools.
Based on information received on December 26 from the State Fire Marshall’s office, we have updated our December 13 article on the fire and rescue on Allen Avenue to report that the rescued occupant has succumbed to injuries sustained in the fire.
We updated Mayor supports zoning limited to MBTA Communities compliance, as City Council prepares to meet TONIGHT (Nov. 15) on Village Center Overlay District proposal to include Rep. Jake Auchincloss’s letter to the City Council regarding how Newton’s land use policy might affect its competitiveness for federal transportation grants.
We revised Nonantum Village Center Overlay District: Another Look to more clearly explain Planning Department Deputy Director Jennifer Caira’s remarks.
We revised NPS leadership and Mayor indicate agreement on budget increases, pending Superintendent’s analysis, based on information from the City’s Chief Operating Officer, Jonathan Yeo, to indicate that the new operational funding will not be targeted to FY 2024 but to the years FY 2025-32.
We corrected the year in the title of What’s Up in Newton – Week of 10/22/2023 from 2024 to 2023. We corrected the introduction to that post to say that Land Use will discuss the 11 Florence Street/Boylston Project – Elder Housing with Services, not the 528 Boylston project. We…
We revised our candidate profile, Alan Lobovits — Candidate for At-Large City Councilor from Ward 6, to correct the spelling of Dr. Lobovits’s name, and we regret our error. We have updated all of our candidate profiles to include the web addresses of each candidate’s campaign website. (We are publishing…
We updated Public Safety and Transportation votes 7-0 to deny repeal of overnight parking ban to include the results of the October 4 meeting of the Public Safety and Transportation committee.